obscurations

They include this subsidiary awareness among the cognitive obscurations (shes-sgrib), in other words the obscurations regarding all knowables and which prevent omniscience.

Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006

Thus, they include it in Asanga’s reference and in the emotional obscurations (nyon-sgrib), in other words the obscurations that are disturbing emotions and attitudes and which prevent liberation.

Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006

This is the essence of being fully human, the space that is revealed after peeling back all the layers of self-delusion, and the ground that exists before the obscurations of self-interest appears.

C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011

This is the essence of being fully human, the space that is revealed after peeling back all the layers of self-delusion, and the ground that exists before the obscurations of self-interest appears.

C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011

This is the essence of being fully human, the space that is revealed after peeling back all the layers of self-delusion, and the ground that exists before the obscurations of self-interest appears.

C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011

This is the essence of being fully human, the space that is revealed after peeling back all the layers of self-delusion, and the ground that exists before the obscurations of self-interest appears.

C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala C. Clinton Sidle 2011

Holiness discusses the etymology of Bodhicitta, noting that the Bodhisattva path relies on the analytical power of intelligence to transform the mind through purification of afflictions/obscurations and attainment of realizations of ultimate reality.

Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary 2010

The root cause of these and other imbalances of mind-body-spirit are very much in line with the Buddhist notion that our own obscurations and illusions cause all of our afflictions and suffering, of all kinds -- at the outer, inner and at the subtlest levels as well.

Lama Surya Das: 5 Secrets for Healing the Spirit 2010

Of course, we may also have a heightened sensitivity to the obscurations, fear and cloaking -- what we call in Shambhala the "cocoon" -- the web of habitual patterns and manipulation that passes for authenticity but is really a kind of camouflage.

David Nichtern: Real World Meditation: Why Being Present Matters 2010

Of course, we may also have a heightened sensitivity to the obscurations, fear and cloaking -- what we call in Shambhala the "cocoon" -- the web of habitual patterns and manipulation that passes for authenticity but is really a kind of camouflage.

David Nichtern: Real World Meditation: Why Being Present Matters 2010